Fans watched Kimberly McCullough grow up on screen as Robin Scorpio on General Hospital over the years, but the actress-turned-director has made the effort to keep her seven-year-old son, Otis, off social media so he won’t grow up in the same kind of spotlight. However, during a conversation with host Alan Locher in an episode of his YouTube series The Locher Room, she opened up about her little boy.
“He is really into decorations,” McCullough confided. “Whether they be Halloween decorations, Christmas decorations… I’m not the biggest holiday person. So I have this three-foot hot pink fake Christmas tree that we get out of the storage every year and he helps me decorate that.”
Young Otis is also demonstrating that he’s inherited some of his mother’s talent. “He is actually playing piano,” McCullough proudly revealed. “This is kind of, I think, a cute story. I was in Les Miserables when I was nine years old at the Shubert Theatre. And I was also on General Hospital. So I was doing Les Miserables, General Hospital, and I was doing a movie called Purple People Eater, which no one saw and that’s totally fine.
“But it starred Neil Patrick Harris, who was obsessed with musicals, even then,” she continued. “So he would just make me sing songs from Les Miserables, like, in between takes and we just really bonded on that. So after I was about to leave Les Miserables because I actually had to go back to General Hospital, I was so sad because I was just kind of learning how to play a little bit of ‘Castle on a Cloud’ on the piano in the basement of the Shubert Theatre. So my mom actually bought me a piano as a gift to kind of make me feel better about the fact that I wasn’t going to do Les Mis anymore.”
Although the young actress only ever learned “Castle on a Cloud,” she has kept the piano her whole life. “It’s been sitting in Otis’ playroom his whole life and he’s never touched it,” McCullough admitted. “And all of a sudden, this summer, he started tinkering around and I started straight up singing ‘Castle on a Cloud’ to him and I showed him a video of when I was on The Tonight Show… Anyway, he has perfect pitch. And so my son, it was so crazy, he just walked over to the piano and started playing ‘Castle on a Cloud.’ That was the first song he learned. Only song I know!”
McCullough has already proven herself an award-winning actress and director, so we would imagine that for little Otis, the sky’s the limit!